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Not sure they've changed that much since. I have a mail server, and while it's not blacklisted by any of the bigger ones (MS, Google and so on), my whole /24 block(!) is on the blacklist of whoever is providing spam filtering to Slackware (signed up for their mailing lists while I was still using Google as a mail provider).

Because the provider says: "If you are on a network that is known for allowing email marketing to occur, you may be out of luck as well. If you aren't doing email marketing consider a different network."[0] I haven't yet gone through and actually contacted them especially since my IP is included in their "worst" category[1]. It's also the only place I've had a problem with so far, so not worth the hassle yet.

[0] http://www.mipspace.com/contact.php [1] http://www.mipspace.com/ratings.php


Wait, weren't dialogues that force you to give consent for non core parts of the experience forbidden under the GDPR? As in, you can't force people to consent by witholding service if they don't?


Yes, this notice itself explicitly makes them non-compliant (IMO, not a lawyer), better to have nothing.


Yeah, and it's by far the worst part of the GDPR. It's based on the implicit premise that you don't own your company and can be compelled to provide services to random people by the government at the point of a gun.


It's crazy where the Overton window is that no one gives a shit about privacy issues unless they tie into politics somehow, and government trying to protect citizens' privacy by means of laws with actual teeth (read: fines) is equated to physical violence.

Ad tech has taken full carte blanche for long enough. If you actually dig into GDPR you find that it's quite reasonable, far better than the cookie law and other earlier iterations that fundamentally misunderstood technology.


Oh, I care a lot about privacy. Because of that I made many choices to never even start using services like Facebook or carry a cell phone with me. I also run white-list only javascript in browser and host all my own services (web/mail/voice chat/etc). These things have made it harder to stay involved with friends, harder to use the web, but it was my choice and the right one.

The idea that people have to be protected from themselves and their choices is at the heart of GDPR. It prevents people from making the correct choice of not using services you disagree with and keeps those services profiting and ever more centralized.

But digging even deeper, there's this delusion that your usage patterns of someone elses' property are yours and to me it seems crazy. You wouldn't say that physical grocery stores cannot keep track of who enters their premises and what they bought (or how long their phone SSID was in range of $x aisle). Or that they should be fined, and have those fined backed up with government violence, if someone demanded the grocer delete the data.


> Because of that I made many choices to never even start using services like Facebook or carry a cell phone with me.

Yet services like Facebook will have a shadow profile for you from data built up through abusing access to other peoples' systems.


And I find it the best part, just because I want to use a service from you doesn't give you the right to muck about with my data for other reasons than to provide that service and the GDPR makes that explicit.


That makes me wonder, is there already something akin to Project Gutenberg but for music rather than books? Would be interesting to browse.


I ran into this the other day: http://radio.publicdomainproject.org/


Noticed the same, here's a link to the google cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http:/...

Seemed to work well enough there.


Whoops! Sorry, was messing around with my blog while apparently everybody was trying to read it. Should be fixed now.


From what I remember, you need to click "Learn more" in the "Deactivate your account" text which will take you to a help page that allows the deletion of the account as well. But yes, it is very much hidden and not meant to be found.


Consent. In a proper/safe environment the prostitute has the option of declining a client. Such an environment would hopefully be easier to create if it was legalized.


They kind of are a thing, there's the LG 43UD79-B[1] which is a 43" UHD monitor. Not the biggest screen, but decently sized and it advertises a 5ms GTG response time which should be adquate for monitor like use.

[1] http://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-43UD79-B-4k-uhd-led-monitor


Be careful to check of those things support HDPC or whatever it's called. I have the Dell 42.5 inch monitor and it won't play 4k content.


For Windows, there is the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator[1], which would allow you to create such a mapping. I used it to map AltGr+s to ß on a Finnish/Swedish keyboard since I found myself writing a decent amount of German.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=223...


Not quite a Netflix category, but there's https://www.doesthedogdie.com/ tracks a few other things in addition to dog deaths.


The name and art seemed familiar, I remember playing an old Flash version[0] of this. Cool game from what I remember.

[0]https://www.kongregate.com/games/Coolio_Niato/light-bot


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